Steuben-Republican  February 1949

        Mrs. Miranda Barrows, 98, of Orland died last week Thursday 
morning, February 24, in the Elmhurst Hospital, where she had been a 
patient for the past nine weeks, suffering from a fractured hip 
sustained in a fall.
        Suriving are the son, Henry and wife, of Orland; a daughter, 
Mrs. Ben Twichell, 2 daughters-in-law Addie and Ella Barrrows, also of 
Orland, with whom she made her home; ten grandchildren; seventeen great-
grandchildren and nine great great grandchildren.
        Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at the Klink 
Funeral Home with the Rev. John K. Arnot officiating, and burial was in 
Greenlawn Cemetery at Orland. 
        With the passing of Mrs. Barrows, one more of the pioneers 
builders of America, is taken to the final reward so justly earned.  
Sturdy of mind and body, she performed life's duties with the zeal and 
determination that characterized the early American founders.
        Her sterling quality, firm stand on right and wrong, and yet a 
most helpful and sympathetic friend in time of need, has gained the 
respect and love of all with whom she came in contact.
        She was born in 1850, on November 1, in Fulton County, Ohio.  
Her mother, Katherine Gillmore was born in Germany,  and her father, 
Ambrose Gillmore, came from New York State to make their home in the 
western country then being settled.
        Miranda taught her first term of school near Adrian, Michigan, 
at the age of sixteen, and later came to Orland where she met her future 
husband, John Barrows, a Civil War veteran, to whom she was married on 
November 30, 1869.
        It was on a farm west of Orland where she lived the greater part 
of her life and where the deeds of kindness and exemplary life were best 
known. She was a charter member of the Greenfield Aid Society, where her 
untiring work was known and contributions of her culinary art were most 
widely enjoyed. 
        For many years, she was a member of the United Brethren Church 
at Greenfield and for some time was a teacher of the adult Sunday School
class.  After this church disbanded, she became a member of the First
Congregational Church at Orland, and retained her membership until her
death.
        Mrs. Barrows possessed good health, hearing and eyesight for a 
woman of ninety-eight years, until the fall which necessitated her 
removal to the hospital.  She kept busy making rugs for her friends and 
as she said "to keep herself busy and contented."
        She was a staunch Democrat, and took a keen interest in world 
affairs. Mrs. Barrows voted in every election since women were granted 
the franchise, from 1920 until the last election in November, 1948.
        Her philosophy of life was "do not worry";  make the most of 
what you have and "do unto others as ye would that men should do unto 
you."

Submitted by J.A. Childers